Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you, whether you use your powers for good -- or evil.

Thevillain's guide to being a hero / by Christopher Healy -- First crossing / by Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Need that dog / by Sharon Creech -- How I became stink Daley / by Deborah Hopkinson -- The wager / by Cathy Camper and Raúl the Third -- Kalash / by Eugene Yelchin -- General Poophead / by Laurie Halse Anderson -- The warrior and the knave / by Ingrid Law -- The hero of the story / by Lemony Snicket -- How my mother was arrested for murder / by Jack Gantos.